Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

“Sadness is looking at yourself; happiness is looking at God. Conversion is nothing more than shifting your gaze from below to above.” – Saint Carlo Acutis

"I adore Thee, Whom the impious incessantly offend by their sacrileges and blasphemies." - EWTN Adoration Prayer

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Monday Musings - The End For Which He Made Me

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August 17, 2026

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PRAYER OF ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA

"Eternal Father, all things are possible for You. Although You created us without our assistance, You will not save us unless we help. Therefore, I pray You re-create their wills so that they wish for what they do not wish for: I ask this of Your infinite mercy. You have created us out of nothing. Now that we exist have mercy on us. Re-make the vessel which You created in Your own image and likeness. Bring them back to Your grace through the grace and blood of You Son, the beloved Jesus Christ."

Don't Hesitate To Appeal

“Souls that make an appeal to My mercy delight Me. To such souls I grant even more graces than they ask. I cannot punish even the greatest sinner if he makes an appeal to My compassion.” - St. Faustina’s Diary, 1146

The Fatima Chaplet of Adoration and Reparation

PRAYER TO BE PRESERVED FROM SUDDEN DEATH

MOST AMIABLE JESUS "I humbly implore Thee by Thy ignominious Scourging, The Crowning with Thorns, Thy Holy Cross, and by all Thy Goodness, not to permit me to pass out of this world without having received Thy most holy Sacraments." -Prayer of St. Vincent Ferrer

Spiritual Weapon Needed For Our Times - Chaplet of St. Michael The Archangel

God's Magnificent Creation

Pondering Tidbits of Truth - August 13, 2026

August 13, 2026

Pondering Tidbits of Truth is my simple and inadequate way of providing nuggets of spiritual wisdom for you to chew on from time to time. Paul Thigpen “If we have been baptized into the Catholic faith as infants and have spent our Sundays attending Mass, perhaps we have missed what many converts are so ecstatic about. We are prone to a certain “house-blindness,” going through the motions of the Faith without bothering to scratch the surface. But for those who are brave enough to venture farther than surface-skimming, an entirely new chapter of their lives begins to unfold when the true reality before us is realized: The same Jesus we read about in the Bible, hear about in the readings of Mass, and watch movies about (if they are trendy enough) is the very same Jesus we receive and adore in the Most Blessed Sacrament, Body Soul and Divinity.” (From Manual for Eucharistic Adoration ) Father Jacques Philippe "In...

Eucharistic Reflection - He Heals. Visit Him!

August 11, 2026

“Faith in the Eucharist opens out the whole invisible world to us. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is nothing less than radiation therapy for our cancer of the eyes. When we gaze upon the Eucharist the healing graces that come from it are the same as the grace that Jesus unleashed upon all of those blind men He healed in the Gospels. It is the same healing, the same mercy, the same compassion, the same transformation that He offers to us in adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. ‘Do this in memory of Me.’ … the Eucharist gives us a deep gaze into the invisible world and we can trust God Who has told us it is true.” (Monsignor James Shea at the Eucharistic Conference, Fargo, ND, September 2022, as posted on Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration,com) ·

Monday Musings - The End For Which He Made Me

August 17, 2026

Monday Musings - Suffer the Little Children (and Sinful Prisoners Too)

July 08, 2013

(Image from Biblebios.com) If God used Balaam’s donkey to get that prophet’s attention, I guess he can use me to get yours. May these periodic postings on the second and fourth Mondays of each month (God willing) generate fruitful discussion and faithful change. I was prompted a few weeks back to go through and empty out my desk drawer. It had been far too long since I had de-cluttered it. I had forgotten the hidden treasures it contained. Then I saw them – about 15 of them. Suddenly, I realized how long it had been since I last went to prison. Odd, isn’t it. The one place I visited where I was always immensely blessed is filled with men and women whom the majority of us would never voluntarily choose to have anything to do with - no matter that our Faith teaches that all of us, including the greatest sinners among us, were created in the image and likeness of God and that each of us, without exception, by and through the unearned and undeser...

Monday Musings - Trusting God

August 10, 2026

Eucharistic Reflection - Prayer of Surrender to Our Eucharistic Lord

February 10, 2026

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) "My Dearest Jesus, Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity, my Savior and Redeemer, my Love and my Life; I behold You, hidden in the spotless Host―Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity. I love You! I adore You! I trust in You! I surrender my intellect and my will to You. I surrender my all to You. Please help me to know You, love You, and serve You ever more perfectly. Please grant me the grace to love You ever more intimately, so that You may be in me and I may be in You―that my love may be complete. Please allow the Indwelling of the Three in me to reflect the Trinity dwelling in You, so that I may be a mirror of Your Divine Love. It is only by Your unfathomable mercy that I can bear Your radiance, and it is only by Your infinite love that I may love! O my Jesus! Please grant me the greatest desire to love you without ceasing and to be fearlessly ...

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